Catholic Church

the eucharistic congress is a landmark event. but how many will be there to see it? a major moment in the life of the english and welsh chur...

Mark Greaves

the former nuncio’s intervention will change the american church on saturday, the national catholic register published a “testimony” written...

Michael Warren Davis

does a boom in pilgrimages signal a religious revival? that’s doubtful above the northern french town of lisieux, a vast white basilica rise...

Jonathan Luxmoore

near la sapienza in rome – the modern campus of an old university – there is a church dedicated to an english philosopher, statesman and mar...

Andrew Cusack

september 1, 1978 the more we get to know pope john paul the more we like him. he was first described as the unknown pope but this merely go...

The Catholic Herald

we still don’t know much about john paul i, who was elected – and died – forty years ago forty years ago this week, cardinal albino luciani ...

Damian Thompson

the blistering indictment of pope francis by archbishop carlo maria viganò, published while the holy father was on a difficult trip to irela...

Fr Raymond de Souza

archbishop ngô đình thục left havoc in his wake, both in vietnamese politics and the spanish-speaking church it’s 1981 and the penitents of ...

Ned Donovan

it is distressing to contemplate how much influence journalists have on catholic life, but in truth this has long been the case. the furious...

Matthew Schmitz

no, i do not intend to write about brexit, but i am interested in the decision-making process taken before the referendum. i wanted to make ...

Quentin de la Bedoyere